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STEM inspiration leads Argonne intern on electrical engineering path

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As a high school student, Bryce Smith participated in the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) High School Research Program, designed to recruit, stimulate and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American youth. The renowned program kicked off Smith's experiences working with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) national laboratory system, most recently updating hardware and software for the Gammasphere experiment at Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne maps out virtual world for US military

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory converted 1,000 pages of CENTCOM military information into a 3D digital visualization that allows users to immerse themselves in the data using virtual reality (VR) headsets, discovering relationships and highlights by wandering through a simulated physical space.

Optical 'tweezers' combine with X-rays to enable analysis of crystals in liquids

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that combines the power of microscale 'tractor beams' with high-powered X-rays, enabling them to see and manipulate crystals freely floating in solution.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Scaling forward

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An Argonne scientist has new ways of accelerating the development of new organic materials for electronics. The new approaches could have applications in other types of materials science research.

Journal: Science Advances

Lithium ions flow through solid material

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Purdue University and Rutgers University, have merged materials science and physics to study a promising solid material that conducts lithium ions.

US Department of Energy and Intel to deliver first exascale supercomputer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Intel Corporation and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States. The system being developed at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago -- named 'Aurora' -- will be used to dramatically advance scientific research and discovery.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Fermilab, international partners break ground on new state-of-the-art particle accelerator

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

With a ceremony held today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory officially broke ground on a major new particle accelerator project that will power cutting-edge physics experiments for many decades to come.

Scientists track patterns of island growth in crystals

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have found that the seemingly random arrangement of islands that form to begin new layers during crystal growth can actually be very similar from layer to layer. The discovery may help scientists better understand of some of the mechanisms behind defect formation, as well as develop techniques to synthesize new types of crystals.

Journal: Nature Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Researchers reverse the flow of time on IBM's quantum computer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists led by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory explored the concept of reversing time in a first-of-its-kind experiment, managing to return a computer briefly to the past. The results, published March 13 in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest new paths for exploring the backward flow of time in quantum systems and present new possibilities for quantum computer program testing and error correction.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Swiss National Foundation, Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics 'BASIS'

Students team with Argonne scientists and engineers to learn about STEM careers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Students got a taste of teamwork during the 17th annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (IGED) on Feb. 21 at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. The event, attended by more than 100 eighth-grade girls from 40 area schools, paired the students up with Argonne scientists and engineers, who answered their questions, provided personal insights and guided them through a career expo.